Magnolia’s Run: Walking Through Walls

Hi, friends! I’m excited to announce my new Teen and Young Adult novel, Magnolia’s Run: Walking Through Walls.

In 1952, nine-year-old Magnolia is abducted from her Idaho family and transported to Kentucky for purposes beyond her understanding. Desperately clinging to the hope of returning home, she faces years of entrapment before deciding to flee.

Magnolia’s Run is a story of abduction, physical and emotional abuse, hope, courage, forgiveness, and redemption.

– Will Magnolia ever regain the past freedoms of her happy farm life?

– How will she face betrayal and grief?

– How does she survive years of entrapment and hardship?

– What must she overcome to reconnect with her past?

– How will her choices affect those who have harmed her?

Come join Magnolia as she finds hope, faith, and courage to walk through walls.

Here’s the link for both print and e-book: https://a.co/d/adYFdmo

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A little backstory: 

In 2021, Magnolia’s story began from a group prompt to write about “walls.” A week or so after that initial two page scene, God gave me an expanded version of the story. Now, three years later, I have been able to write those deeper, more emotional and difficult parts of Magnolia’s journey.

Opening myself to Magnolia’s confusion, hurts, and unending questions, I saw God helping her find courage, strength, and faith to walk through walls. Magnolia’s questions “Will I ever get out of here? Who will help me?” are deeply rooted questions most of us face, knowingly or unknowingly, in the midst of our own painful challenges. 

Several days after publishing Magnolia’s Run, God brought to my attention an easy-to-read nonfiction book about healing hurts God’s way: A Wound From My Father: Healing Childhood Trauma When You’re Still Hurting and Not Sure Why (Christian Counseling Series) by Dr. Rosnell Simmons.  Link: https://a.co/d/aBie1dD

Though written for women, its precepts apply to men’s hurting hearts, too. No matter how superficial or deep, intentional or unintentional, hurts a child receives (or perceives) from parents or others may fester a lifetime.

I hope Magnolia’s story (and Dr. Simmons’s book) will encourage readers to turn, again, to the One who is their Sure Rescue, no matter how impossible or foreboding their walls. 

All praise to LORD Jesus who bends down to us with unending Love. Who strengthens us to walk through walls. Who heals our hurts. Who has the power to make all things new!

God bless you, and all who are hurting.

Romans 15:13 NLT “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Isaiah 60:18 NKJV “Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,
Neither wasting nor destruction within your borders;
But you shall call your walls Salvation,
And your gates Praise.”